“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” – Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is a fitting tribute to the great Pop Art legend and figurehead of the modern art movement. This retrospective of his career brings together more than 300 works, spanning all areas of his practice from the 1950s until his death in 1987 – paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, films, videos and installations. The exhibition will show, for the first time in Australia, Warhol’s early commercial work, as well as his late monumental paintings.
In addition to works from The Andy Warhol Museum, the exhibition includes loans from the National Gallery of Australia, Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Victoria and private collections.
The GoMA aims to investigate how Warhol represented himself through his art practice. This makes the exhibition both a personal and apathetic intrusion into the life of an artist.